January 26, 1960 - "Freeway" Rick Ross
At the height of his operation, he was moving tens of millions of dollars' worth of crack cocaine through Los Angeles and into cities across the United States, becoming one of the central figures in the crack epidemic that reshaped urban America in the 1980s. His case later gained additional notoriety when it emerged that his primary supplier had ties to CIA-connected Nicaraguan Contra networks, drawing congressional scrutiny and fueling lasting controversy about the federal government's role in the drug trade.
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Ricky Donnell "Freeway Ricky" Ross (born January 26, 1960) is an American author and former drug lord best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s. He was sentenced to life in prison, though the sentence was shortened on appeal and Ross was released in 2009.
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